intellect and language are those of children of three or four
years, to whom their gait also assimilates them; but they have
none of childhood's reserve or shyness, are inquisitive and
restless, and articulate with manifest efforts and difficulty.
To children of three to six or eight years, their incessant
pranks and gambols must be a source of intense and unfailing
delight. The story that they were procured from an unknown,
scarcely approachable Aboriginal City of Central America called
_Iximaya_, situated high among the mountains and rarely visited
by civilized man, may be true or false; but that they are
natives of that part of the world, I cannot doubt. To the
moralist, the student, the physiologist, they are subjects
deserving of careful scrutiny and thoughtful observation; while
to those whose highest motive is the gratification of
curiosity, but especially to children, they must be objects of
vivid interest."
A DAY AT CHATSWORTH.
THE PRISON OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, AND PALACE OF THE DUKES OF
DEVONSHIRE.
[Illustration: THE ENTRANCE GATES.]
Among the most magnificent of the palatial homes of England--indeed one
of the most rich and splendid residences occupied in all the world by an
uncrowned master--is Chatsworth, in Derbyshire, the most beautiful
district in the British islands. With some abridgment we transfer to the
_International_ an account of a recent visit to Chatsworth, by Mrs. S.
C. HALL, with the illustrations by Mr. FINHALT, from the January number
of the London _Art-Journal_. Our agreeable authoress, after some general
observations respecting the attractions of the neighborhood, proceeds:
"We are so little proud of the beauties of England, that the
foreigner only hears of Derbyshire as the casket which contains
the rich jewel of CHATSWORTH. The setting is worthy of the gem.
It ranks foremost among proudly beautiful English mansions; and
merits its familiar title of the Palace of the Peak. It was the
object of our pilgrimage; and we recalled the history of the
nobles of its House. The family of Cavendish is one of our
oldest descents; it may be traced lineally from Robert de
Gernon, who entered England with the Conqueror, and whose
descendant, Roger Gernon, of Grimston, in Suffolk, marrying the
daughter and sole heiress of Lord Cavendish in that county, in
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